Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s turn to take a walk with ‘tiger’ Tan at Cardiff City

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He never used the phrase publicly, but it was often said that Malky Mackay felt that working under Vincent Tan at Cardiff City was like “taking a tiger for a walk”. It was a challenge — and, for the most part, an extremely fulfilling one — but it was also an extremely delicate operation that included the ever-present threat of extreme danger.

In other words, the Cardiff manager’s position did not quite seem like the dream job for someone like Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, who has spent the past couple of years building his managerial reputation at Molde, in his native Norway, while